Books - Children

• Sita Brahmachari
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9781509855360
• Published: 01-06-2017

Winner of the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize, Artichoke Hearts by Sita Brahmachari is an incredibly insightful, honest novel exploring the delicate balance, and often injustice, of life and death - but at its heart is a celebration of friendship, culture, and life.Twelve-year-o...

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• Emma Carroll
• Faber & Faber
• ISBN13: 9780571327584
• Published: 01-06-2017

'We weren't supposed to be going to the pictures that night. We weren't even meant to be outside, not in a blackout, and definitely not when German bombs had been falling on London all month like pennies from a jar.' February, 1941. After months of bombing raids in London, 12-year-old O...

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• Kim Slater
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9781509842193
• Published: 18-05-2017

Fourteen-year-old Calum Brooks has big dreams. One day he'll escape this boring life and write movies -proper ones, with massive budgets and A-list stars. For now, though, he's stuck coping alone while his dad works away, writing scripts in his head and trying to stay 'in' with his gang of mat...

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• Claire Fayers (Author)
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9781447290629
• Published: 18-05-2017

Sail the magical seven seas in Journey to Dragon Island, a swashbuckling pirate adventure by Claire Fayers.Since accidentally joining the crew of pirate ship the Onion, the lives of twelve-year-old Brine Seaborne, her magician friend Peter and former-librarian Tom have been turned...

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• Jennifer Killick
• Firefly Press Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781910080566
• Published: 15-05-2017

Alex Sparrow is a super-agent in training. He is also a human lie-detector. Working with Jess - who can communicate with animals - they must find out why their friends, and enemies, are all changing into polite and well behaved pupils. And exactly who is behind it all. This is a humorous tale...

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• Horatio Clare
• Firefly Press Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781910080504
• Published: 15-05-2017

The ladybirdz arrive in Woodside Terrace, and Aubrey's Easter holidays get complicated. Ariadne the spider asks Aubrey to help. Something Must Be Done, but first Aubrey sucks the swallow stone which makes him small enough for daring flights on the back of Hirundo the Swallow and amazing advent...

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• Sheila O'Flanagan
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444927085
• Published: 04-05-2017

The gripping children's debut from the Sunday Times and Irish Times No. 1 bestselling author is a page-turning fantasy quest novel for fans of Cornelia Funke, Susan Cooper and Philip Pullman. 'I am proud to die for Carcassia,' said Kaia. 'All Runners have a special place in our world, i...

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• Matilda Woods, Anuska Allepuz
• Scholastic
• ISBN13: 9781407178691
• Published: 04-05-2017

\"This luminous tale of loss, love and finding family is threaded through with the power of storytelling, and a touch of magic. 'A giant of a little thing', as Alberto would say, The Boy, the Bird, & the Coffin Maker reads like a classic.\" Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of In...

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